How to eliminate duplicate pictures?

Originally, before Picasa, I stored my pictures in multiple folders by topic
and interest. This eventually lead to many duplicated pictures eating HD
(over 16,000 pictures now). I wrote Excel macro to look for these
duplicates, but it was still complicated process to delete them. I found
free software called VisiPics, which does this process absolutely amazingly.
This program actually compares pixels in the pictures. Depends on your level
of adjustment, it will find exact duplicates or very similar pictures and
displays them side by side with quick preview. This is so elegant and so
impressive, that I want to share this with you
(http://www.download.com/VisiPics/300...-10458663.html)

Jan

"Jan Nademlejnsky" wrote in message
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Originally, before Picasa, I stored my pictures in multiple folders by
topic and interest. This eventually lead to many duplicated pictures
eating HD (over 16,000 pictures now). I wrote Excel macro to look for
these duplicates, but it was still complicated process to delete them. I
found free software called VisiPics, which does this process absolutely
amazingly. This program actually compares pixels in the pictures. Depends
on your level of adjustment, it will find exact duplicates or very similar
pictures and displays them side by side with quick preview. This is so
elegant and so impressive, that I want to share this with you
(http://www.download.com/VisiPics/300...-10458663.html)

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thanks, it's a good idea but, unfortunately, it doesn't work with RAW files
(at least, not .pef's or .dng's)

"Limited Liability" wrote in message
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"Jan Nademlejnsky" wrote in message
news:rajXf.209123$H%4.139815@pd7tw2no...
Originally, before Picasa, I stored my pictures in multiple folders by
topic and interest. This eventually lead to many duplicated pictures
eating HD (over 16,000 pictures now). I wrote Excel macro to look for
these duplicates, but it was still complicated process to delete them. I
found free software called VisiPics, which does this process absolutely
amazingly. This program actually compares pixels in the pictures. Depends
on your level of adjustment, it will find exact duplicates or very
similar pictures and displays them side by side with quick preview. This
is so elegant and so impressive, that I want to share this with you
(http://www.download.com/VisiPics/300...-10458663.html)

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thanks, it's a good idea but, unfortunately, it doesn't work with RAW
files (at least, not .pef's or .dng's)


dup raw's are easy to find with any program that finds dups based on size,
date, and checksum / crc